Comments on: Readability Updated With Some Handy Tools http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/ Web Application Design & Development Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:09:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Seth http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1383 Seth Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:23:35 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1383 I'm having problems with Readability -- it doesn't select the right texts on many of the sites I try to use it on, choosing reviews/comments sections instead of the main body of text that I want to read. Is there a way to make it select a certain grouping of text? I’m having problems with Readability — it doesn’t select the right texts on many of the sites I try to use it on, choosing reviews/comments sections instead of the main body of text that I want to read. Is there a way to make it select a certain grouping of text?

]]> By: Larry http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1265 Larry Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:41:41 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1265 Love it. Only works with Safari so far. Can anyone help me load it to Chrome or Foxfire (just got the latest update) Thanks Love it.

Only works with Safari so far.

Can anyone help me load it to Chrome or Foxfire (just got the latest update)

Thanks

]]> By: Julien Couvreur http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1172 Julien Couvreur Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:59:35 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1172 I use Readability daily and my friends love it too. Thanks folks! It would be awesome if it could incorporate smarts to handle Next/Previous pages. Often, after applying the Readability bookmarklet, the next/previous links disappear, since they are not part of the body of the content. It would be great if Readability could be smart and detect such links and display them (maybe in the tools area?). There is a Greasemonkey script which has some of this functionality, which may be useful for inspiration: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2199 I use Readability daily and my friends love it too. Thanks folks!
It would be awesome if it could incorporate smarts to handle Next/Previous pages.

Often, after applying the Readability bookmarklet, the next/previous links disappear, since they are not part of the body of the content. It would be great if Readability could be smart and detect such links and display them (maybe in the tools area?).

There is a Greasemonkey script which has some of this functionality, which may be useful for inspiration: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2199

]]> By: Carl Zimmer http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1032 Carl Zimmer Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:52:58 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1032 One suggestion to make Readability even better: it doesn't seem as if the options for viewing have any effect on how a page looks printed out. I'd love to have a printed version with the same medium margins as I like on the screen, for example. But the printed version always looks the same. One suggestion to make Readability even better: it doesn’t seem as if the options for viewing have any effect on how a page looks printed out. I’d love to have a printed version with the same medium margins as I like on the screen, for example. But the printed version always looks the same.

]]> By: club penguin http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1031 club penguin Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:48:49 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1031 The old readability button quit working (on my computer) so I had to delete it and reinstall from the readability web page - and now it's working again. I use readability in conjunction with F11 to eliminate ALL distraction from my screen while reading. Works even better on a 9 or 10 inch netbook with eeeRotate installed. The old readability button quit working (on my computer) so I had to delete it and reinstall from the readability web page – and now it’s working again. I use readability in conjunction with F11 to eliminate ALL distraction from my screen while reading. Works even better on a 9 or 10 inch netbook with eeeRotate installed.

]]> By: mysticpixels http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1030 mysticpixels Tue, 26 May 2009 13:34:09 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1030 Readability is a concept just out of the box ! Was really looking for functionality like this for long. But sometimes it is not working as expected, as it selects the wrong content ( i tried using it to read a blog and it was just displaying the first post and the post header was not there, there was the page header instead :P). It would be nice if the team could test it in such scenarios and make it much better and give it a more more pleasant User Experience ... Great work team :) Readability is a concept just out of the box ! Was really looking for functionality like this for long. But sometimes it is not working as expected, as it selects the wrong content ( i tried using it to read a blog and it was just displaying the first post and the post header was not there, there was the page header instead :P). It would be nice if the team could test it in such scenarios and make it much better and give it a more more pleasant User Experience … Great work team :)

]]> By: Keyvan http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1029 Keyvan Fri, 15 May 2009 11:54:54 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1029 I'm really glad I found this. Great work! Does anyone know if it's been ported to another language, like PHP, so users also have the option of running it on the server? I'm interested because I think it'd be very handy for RSS feeds which don't provide full-text content. I'd love to have a service which takes an RSS feeds with only URLs and titles and runs the readability code on each URL to get back the full-text content. The output would be a new RSS feed with full-text content included. Charles, for printing your blog content, you might be interested in a project I'm working on: RSS to PDF Newspaper (click my name for info). I’m really glad I found this. Great work! Does anyone know if it’s been ported to another language, like PHP, so users also have the option of running it on the server?
I’m interested because I think it’d be very handy for RSS feeds which don’t provide full-text content. I’d love to have a service which takes an RSS feeds with only URLs and titles and runs the readability code on each URL to get back the full-text content. The output would be a new RSS feed with full-text content included.
Charles, for printing your blog content, you might be interested in a project I’m working on: RSS to PDF Newspaper (click my name for info).

]]> By: Charles LePage http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1028 Charles LePage Tue, 12 May 2009 16:50:48 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1028 I'd love to be able to add a "Readability" button to each of my posts, so my readers would be able to create a print ready version of my posts right from my web site. Is that possible? I’d love to be able to add a “Readability” button to each of my posts, so my readers would be able to create a print ready version of my posts right from my web site. Is that possible?

]]> By: Julien Couvreur http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1027 Julien Couvreur Tue, 05 May 2009 17:42:47 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1027 Rich -- Glad to hear you're considering a paginated interface. Another idea: would it be possible for Readability to include some heuristics to detect "next page", and giving some interface (keyboard or mouse) to navigate to it? Here is an example: <a href="http://mises.org/austecon/chap2.asp" rel="nofollow">http://mises.org/austecon/chap2.asp</a> Readability does a good job on the page, but it removes this important link. Rich — Glad to hear you’re considering a paginated interface.
Another idea: would it be possible for Readability to include some heuristics to detect “next page”, and giving some interface (keyboard or mouse) to navigate to it?
Here is an example: http://mises.org/austecon/chap2.asp
Readability does a good job on the page, but it removes this important link.

]]> By: Mark http://blog.arc90.com/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1026 Mark Fri, 01 May 2009 12:40:22 +0000 http://blog.daniell.acr90-dev-02/2009/04/16/readability-updated-with-some-handy-tools/#comment-1026 I just learned about Readability and it looks very promising. As a committed Tablet PC user, one of my chief frustrations has been web sites hard-coded with wide text, forcing me to scroll horizontally with every line. Readability looks like it nicely addresses this problem and will become a staple of my web reading diet. Thanks! I just learned about Readability and it looks very promising.
As a committed Tablet PC user, one of my chief frustrations has been web sites hard-coded with wide text, forcing me to scroll horizontally with every line. Readability looks like it nicely addresses this problem and will become a staple of my web reading diet. Thanks!

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